[Coco] NitrOS-9 releases [Was: C compiler crashes VCC with Nitros9]

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 03 October 2013 17:25:07 Tormod Volden did opine:

> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 October 2013 15:00:24 Bill Pierce did opine:
> >> His problem is his nitros9 version (3.2.8). and the Vcc emulator. Vcc
> >> and nitros9 3.2.8 had problems getting along for some reason. Wasn't
> >> 3.2.8 the one that sat in the repo for the past 5 years until it
> >> attracted some cockyroaches?
> > 
> > Something like that. ;-) And one of the reasons I keep copy's of old
> > repo's going back to the turn of the century.  And some of that goes
> > back to 1993.
> > 
> >> I think I remember having a problem in
> >> 3.2.8 with C and that's why I searched and found 3.2.9. Now I got my
> >> custom C setup and I have no problems... :-)
> > 
> > 3.2.9 is several years old, and IMO should have been bumped to 3.3.0
> > even before the lwtools conversion was even thought of.  But its not
> > my boat to row.
> > 
> > Now its totally confusing as to which code someone has when they say
> > 3.2.9.
> 
> I don't see that 3.2.9 has been released yet? The latest release in
> sourceforge is 3.2.8. The ChangeLog in the repo lists 3.2.9 but this
> item is still being added to. I might be missing something, and if
> there are some 3.2.9 floating around, official or not, it would make
> sense to make the next one 3.2.10 to avoid further confusion.

No, 3.2.9 should have been released in 2011, maybe about Jan 2012, then the 
current sand box you and a few others, even me, have been sweeping up 
valiantly should have been 3.2.10.  And when its done and all the problems 
solved, then its 3.3.0.  The switch in assemblers to put it together needs 
a large, obvious demarcation line.
> 
> Small things I would have liked to see fixed before a release:
> - the lwtools branch merged back to the default branch. I hope Boisy
> can at least give his opinion on this. I am not too familar with
> mercurial but I think it should be straight forward.
> - the Dragon images. Is anyone here using NitrOS-9 on a Dragon and can
> test latest builds? The acia51 module seems to be missing. Is there
> another driver for the serial port? And the disk images have run out
> of space so someone has to advice on that.
> - would be nice if someone fixed up pacos9 to build with lwtools.
> 
> Tormod
> 
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